‘…but Icarus flew too close’

Here we are again with the Friday Face Off meme created by Books by Proxy . This is a great opportunity to feature some of your favourite book covers. The rules are fairly simple each week, following a predetermined theme (list below) choose a book, compare a couple of the different covers available for that particular book and choose your favourite. Future week’s themes are listed below. This week’s theme:

‘…but Icarus flew too close’ – a cover featuring the Sun

This week I had a book that didn’t work out because there was only one cover, I had a book that did work but was a bit sneaky and so the book I eventually found was : Dune (Dune #1) by Frank Herbert:

I’m not sure which is my favourite this week. I think I have a joint favourite:

Which is your favourite?

Next week – a cover featuring a doll or puppet

Future themes:

16th March – ‘I got no strings to hold me down’ – a cover featuring a doll or puppet

23rd March – “When she was a child, the witch locked her away in a tower that had neither doors nor stairs.” – a cover featuring a Tower

30th March – ‘A little soil to make it grow’ – a cover featuring seeds/spores

6th April – “After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.” – a cover featuring a family

13th April – ‘lawns and rocks and heather and different sorts of trees, lay spread out below them, the river winding through it’ – a cover featuring a panorama

20th April – Where there’s fire there’s… – a cover featuring smoke

27th April – ‘Those darling byegone times… with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of torture’ – a cover that is positively mediaeval

Hard to pick one of your two choices, because I love them both: the one on the right depicts one of the giant worms, so it shouts “Dune!” with a loud voice, but the one on the left, with the Fremen walking on the desert’s sand is also a powerful one… 🙂

Ooh I love some of the Dune covers! My favorite here is the 3rd one along the top- I think (not sure) that that one is fairly newer, but I’ve seen it before and I like the perspective. almost like looking out from a cave entrance, but I like the sandworm one a lot too!

Sorry about the delay in getting to you – I’ve been rather overwhelmed and fallen behind with my commenting… I love this book and this series of covers. As ever, an apt choice for the subject. My favourite cover is the first of your selection – I love the blazing sun lighting those fabulous dunes and the stylish title font.

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